Vertex Energy Will Present at the Craig-Hallum 5th Annual Alpha
Select Conference on September 18, 2014

September 11, 2014 07:13 AM Eastern Daylight Time

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vertex Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: VTNR),
an environmental services company that recycles industrial waste streams
and off-specification commercial chemical products, will present at the
Craig-Hallum Capital Group's 5th Annual Alpha Select Conference. The
conference will be held at the Convene Conference Center, located at 730
3rd Avenue in New York City, on Thursday, September 18, 2014.

Benjamin Cowart, Chairman and CEO of Vertex Energy, Inc., will deliver
the presentation on Thursday, September 18, 2014 at 1:30 p.m. Eastern
time in the Union Square room on the 18th floor. A copy of the corporate
presentation will also be available under the Investor Relations section
of the company’s website at: www.vertexenergy.com.

ABOUT VERTEX ENERGY, INC.

Vertex Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: VTNR)
is a leading environmental services company that recycles industrial
waste streams and off-specification commercial chemical products. Its
primary focus is recycling used motor oil and other petroleum by-product
streams. Vertex purchases these streams from an established network of
local and regional collectors and generators. Vertex also manages the
transport, storage and delivery of the aggregated feedstock and product
streams to end users, and manages the re-refining of a portion of its
aggregated petroleum streams in order to sell them as higher-value end
products. Vertex sells its aggregated petroleum streams as feedstock to
other re-refineries and fuel blenders or as replacement fuel for use in
industrial burners. The re-refining of used motor oil that Vertex
manages takes place at its facility, which uses a proprietary Thermal
Chemical Extraction Process (“TCEP”) technology. Based in Houston,
Texas, Vertex also has offices in Georgia, Chicago, and California. More
information on Vertex can be found at www.vertexenergy.com.

This press release may contain forward-looking statements, including
information about management's view of Vertex Energy's future
expectations, plans and prospects, within the safe harbor provisions
under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (the "Act").In particular, when used in the preceding discussion, the words
"believes," "expects," "intends," "plans," "anticipates," or "may," and
similar conditional expressions are intended to identify forward-looking
statements within the meaning of the Act, and are subject to the safe
harbor created by the Act.Any statements made in this news
release other than those of historical fact, about an action, event or
development, are forward-looking statements.These statements
involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, which
may cause the results of Vertex Energy, its divisions and concepts to be
materially different than those expressed or implied in such statements.These risk factors and others are included from time to time in
documents Vertex Energy files with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, including but not limited to, its Form 10-Ks, Form 10-Qs and
Form 8-Ks.Other unknown or unpredictable factors also could have
material adverse effects on Vertex Energy's future results. The
forward-looking statements included in this press release are made only
as of the date hereof.Vertex Energy cannot guarantee future
results, levels of activity, performance or achievements. Accordingly,
you should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements.Finally, Vertex Energy undertakes no obligation to update these
statements after the date of this release, except as required by law,
and also takes no obligation to update or correct information prepared
by third parties that are not paid for by Vertex Energy.